# The Secret Life of Literature

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- Authors: [Lisa Zunshine](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-zunshine)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-633-6
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2022-03-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works. For over four thousand...